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May 6, 2025
Bin Yard Automation Made Easy with Flaman
Automation Bin Yard When customers identify new issues, we pursue innovative solutions. It's how our Grain Systems team tackled mechanical problems like overloaded grain dryer motors or grain handling systems plugging. Inspired adaptation also helps customers resolve shortages of skilled help and scale bin yard operations with less trouble and expense. Installing new technology has presented a unique challenge. When farm wiring was more straightforward, a local electrician could handle it while our team installed bins, ladders, dryers, and other equipment. But new complexities can cause errors, downtime, and hours of troubleshooting busy farmers can ill afford. "We started thinking...
Mar 18, 2025
Three Ways Drone Technology Can Help Livestock Operations
Drones find and check livestock faster, with less animal stress. Drones have a lot to offer cattle and sheep operations. Here are three ways aerial observation, quick access to remote areas, multi-level zoom cameras, and thermal imaging can make livestock management much easier. Keeping Tabs on Your Livestock On a cold, snowy day, how would you prefer to check your cows? Bundling up for a long ground search that ends with you startling your herd and having to search for them again. Watching a broad aerial search on your remote control, easily finding your herd with thermal imagery, then...
Mar 6, 2025
How a Rock Picker and Windrower in One Could Work for You
Schulte’s inescapable 1935 is like RoboCop for rocks. A single rock picker/rock rower unit sounds great, but can it pay for itself? Here’s how the Schulte RW-1935 Spartan Rock Picker Windrower answers that question. Consider rising repair costs. “Equipment likes to run, and rocks like to break down equipment. That’s nothing new,” says Kevin Kulak, Flaman’s Territory Manager for Alberta’s Peace Country. “Fifteen to 20 years ago, a rock getting into a combine might cause a few hundred to maybe a couple thousand damage. You mainly lost time. “But today’s equipment is intricately designed to run quicker with more...
Mar 5, 2025
Flaman Answers Call for Northern Wildfire Response
Hitting Northern Wildfires with 300 gallons of water and foam. A lightning strike. A crown fire that jumps from treetop to treetop. Dropping embers fall to the ground and smoulder in a quick-drying peat layer up to five feet deep. They wait all winter to flare up through the forest floor or burn through tree roots and inside trunks. In the northern woods, fire is a different animal. Tree stands are much sparser on the southern prairies. More people can spot and report blazes, and emergency response is less obstructed. Up north, fires are isolated – usually spotted first by...
Nov 19, 2024
How a Bench Custom Grain Cleaner More Than Pays for Itself
It’s a scene that’s played out on farm after farm across Canada. Flaman Sales Specialist James Vanbeselaere positions your input and output augers, sets four levelling jacks, flips a switch on the central electric panel, and another farmer is in business. If you’ve read our other Bench Custom Grain Cleaners Blog, you know that the business of on-farm grain cleaning makes good long-term economic sense. That blog discussed the savings you could bank, potentially over decades. With James’s help, this one details the ease, versatility, and benefits of operating your own personally customized cleaner. Easy Start Up “They usually reach...